Mental Illness In The Black Community

In recent years, mental illness in the black community is becoming more and more an epidemic just like any other illness. This paper will take a look at what causes mental illness at a young age and what is being done to help our young African Americans combat the disease. In order to understand what causes mental illness, a person must first define what mental illness is. Mental illness is described as a disorder that affects your mood, thinking, and behavior. Mental illness is important more people should know and care about the different mental illness. There are a lot of mental illness in the black community but a lot of people don 't realize or don 't care that it is a mental illness. From the memoir Buck makes you realize that mental

According to Mayo Clinic, a mental illness can make a person miserable and cause numerous problems in their daily life. For example, when you are at school or on a job or in a relationship with someone. There are several types of mental illness. They include depression, bipolar, anxiety attack and changes and in behavior. When reading Buck the reader finds out a lot about his mother because MK decides to read his mother personal journal. MK finds out his mother was depressed at a very young age. There was something going on in MK mother 's life that made her want to kill herself at an early age. This is not uncommon according to an article in Ebony magazine. A young lady named Simone Sneed was diagnosed at the age of thirteen with being bipolar disorder. Simone Sneed thinks it was the emotional tension that caused her to be bipolar. Emotional tension is the way a person deals with the different situation. It is kept on the inside and not shared with other people. This is how mental illness becomes a silent killer. This shows mental illnesses in a perspective of

In conclusion, mental illnesses are seriously affecting women, the black community, and home setting. A mental illness is a health condition that affects a person 's mood, behavior, and thinking. For example, a person with a mental illness can try to commit suicide. Mental illness is really serious. Mental illness is important because more people should know and care about the different mental illness. There are a lot of mental illness in the black community but a lot of people don 't realize or don 't care that it is a mental illness. In the black community, we need to open our eyes up to be aware of the different types of mental illnesses. Mental illnesses show different types of sign like if a person 's mood, attitude or behavior. Mental illnesses affect the black community but it also affects the home setting and women. The reason why it affects the home setting is it pull the family apart from each other. By having one family member that is depressed or having anxiety, it 's breaking down the family and the home setting. In a woman 's perspective, the family cannot be a unit unless this problem is address in the proper way. As soon as a parent is aware of the symptoms he or she should reach out for help. The black family can then function as a whole when the person has the proper help to function in society. Then the black community can say it is not